Internet User*s Reference: 2002 Edition (3rd Edition)

-- Thoroughly updated, and completely reorganized for greater accessibility, clarity, and simplicity.

-- Extensive new coverage of XML, metadata, Internet security, and much more.

Find what you need on the Internet fast, with this concise, no-nonsense, independent reference to the Net's most credible information resources and best tools. The Internet User's Reference, Third Edition 2002 is a handy, up-to-the-minute guide to using Internet technologies for research, communication, collaboration, publishing, retrieving, and delivering data. Thoroughly reorganized to maximize clarity, simplicity, and accessibility, this edition contains extensive new content -- including detailed new coverage of XML, metadata, and Internet security. Coverage includes: browsers, search engines and specialist search tools, portal services, intelligent agents, e-mail, listservs, newsgroups, Web conferencing, group collaboration, FTP, Web publishing, HTML, graphics, real-time multimedia communication, DHTML, JavaScript, CGI, ASP, cookies, database integration, and more. The book's extensive new coverage includes an up-to-the-minute guide to the use of XML in managing content; as well as significant advances in Internet security, such as public key infrastructures and digital certificates. Each topic comes with a concise, hype-free explanation, plus URLs pointing to the Internet's most useful, credible resources. For everyone using the Web professionally or academically; will be especially valuable to schools and libraries.